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Online maps 'wiping out history'
news.bbc.co.uk — Internet mapping is wiping the rich geography and history of Britain off the map, the president of the British Cartographic Society has said.
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- herrdoktorc, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1Totally agree with the guy from Google here. A traditional map will be constrained by the space available to detail a particular subset of buildings. If I have no interest in ancient monuments I don't really want that clutter on my map; I don't need to know where Post Offices are until I need one. If I can only ever have one (printed) map then of course I'll need lots more information on it all of the time.
What I do miss, a bit, from online maps is the identification of built-up areas and pedestrianised (read: probably shopping) areas. She does, also, have a point that online map overlays tend to only show a pinpoint location of something of interest. That's fine for something as small as a Post Office, but for larger things one really needs the outline to be shown.
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